As governments and private companies from emerging markets have increasingly issued foreign-currency denominated debt through the 1990s, the economies concerned have become more vulnerable to abrupt changes in sovereign risk. At the same time, with closer economic integration countries have become more likely to be affected by economic problems that arise in neighboring countries.The following article uses the example of four Latin American countries to evaluate empirically the extent to which "contagion" explains changes in sovereign risk.
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